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"One who has four hands". It is famous that Maha Vishnu has four hands and they carry the Conch, the Discus, the Mace, and the Lotus. According to the Puranas, these four are used by the Lord in maintaining Dharma among mankind. Very many of us in the enchantment of the immediate sense-joys refuse to listen to the small inner voice of our conscience, the sound of the Panchajanya-conch, and so He wields the Mace and we come to suffer small calamities and tragic jerks in our smooth existence - communal, social or national. If still the individual is not listening to the call of the Conch, the wheel-of-time, Chakra annihilates the entire. The call and the punishment are all only to take man towards his Ultimate Goal, represented by the "Lotus" in His hand. All these four are wielded by the One Infinite Blue-bodied Narayana, clothed in His yellow garb, manifesting to maintain and sustain the world of good and evil. Since the Self functions thus in a four-fold pattern, Vishnu has the appellation, "the four-armed Lord."